On the border of the Song and Jin Dynasties, within the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and south of Lintao Prefecture, there were a series of Mongolian army barracks, crowded with people and horses, which was really spectacular.
Thick smoke billowed in the city, and flames shot into the sky. Strings of golden people were being led out of the city gate by the Mongolian soldiers. Many Mongolian cavalry horses were loaded with large and small packages of gold and silver, and many young women were tied up and framed. On horseback, eyes were dull, waiting for their unknown fate.
The number of Mongolian camps outside the city is densely packed and rolling. Countless plundered horses were also concentrated in the camp, and the heads of the horses were swarming. They were of all colors and sizes, forming a sea of horses.
To the west of Lintao City, the Tao River rolls northward. On the grassland on the shore, thousands of Jin soldiers and civilians crowded together, looking panicked. Not far around them, countless Mongolian soldiers were riding on horses, with horned bows in their hands, and countless feather arrows had been taken out.
With a "swish" sound, an arrow whizzed out, as fast as a locust. An old golden man in the crowd was shot to the ground, his body twitching.
Immediately afterwards, countless Mongolian troops opened their bows and arrows and shot at the Jin prisoners on the shore. Arrows rained down for a while. The Jin prisoners fell to the ground one after another. The remaining ones panicked and crowded toward the river bank, screaming in terror and shouting. Cries floated along the shore.
The Mongolian cavalry on the shore laughed loudly. They rode on horseback. Many of them drew their sabers and approached the remaining Jin Army prisoners on the shore from three sides. Some Mongolian cavalry kept firing arrows at the Jin prisoners on the shore.
Feather arrows flew continuously, and countless Jin prisoners jumped into, were squeezed or forced to jump into the rolling Tao River. Countless people were washed away by the surging river water. The river was full of people and people struggling desperately to follow the current. corpse.
The Mongolian cavalry rushed into the hundreds of remaining Jin prisoners on the shore. They ran rampant and killed them arbitrarily. Those Jin prisoners who were kneeling to beg for mercy were killed one by one by them. The blood of the Jin people gathered into streams and flowed. Entering the river, the riverside is bright red.
Hundreds of Mongolian cavalry were riding along the coast. They looked carefully and found those survivors who were swimming or fleeing with corpses. They shot them without mercy and immediately shot them.
All the Jin prisoners on the shore were chopped and shot, leaving layers of corpses piled up on the shore, floating in the Tao River, and no one cared about them.
Thick smoke billowed from the city, flames shot into the sky, and corpses were everywhere outside the city. It suddenly felt like a hell on earth.
In the Mongolian army camp in the south of the city, in the open space in front of a tent, a purple-robed official with a bare head and temples, and many pigtails hanging behind his head, was tied and kneeling on the ground, his face dripping with blood, and was being tortured by Mongolian warriors.
Sitting on a chair nearby was a tall, thin, cold-faced Mongolian general who was over fifty years old. Surrounded by a group of Mongolian generals, he watched the bloody torture process with cold eyes.
The person kneeling on the ground and being tortured was Tuoman Hu Tumen, an official of the Jin Dynasty. He was the general manager of the Lintao Road Soldiers and Horses Department at the time. Lintao City was destroyed, defeated and captured.
The black-faced Mongolian general who watched the execution with a cold eye was Subotai, who was under the command of the Mongolian Khan Genghis Khan and was known as the most powerful general in the Mongolian army.
Subotai and Genghis Khan were playmates since childhood. Because of his bravery and prowess in battle, he was known as the "Four Dogs" under Genghis Khan, together with his brother Zhelme, the warriors Zhebie, and Kublai Lai.
In the twelfth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, Genghis Khan conquered Khwarezm in the west. Subotai and Zhebie acted as the vanguard, and successively captured the cities of Samalgan, Nishabuer, etc., forcing Sultan Mahamo of Khwarezm to flee to Kuantianji. He died of illness soon after living on a small island in Sihai.
After Mahamo's death, Subotai and Zhebei attacked the Kipchaks to the west, and defeated the Kipchaks and Orosi forces at the Battle of the Kalka River, killing 80,000 enemy troops, shocking Eastern Europe.
When Genghis Khan conquered Xixia this time, Subutai led his troops to follow him. He conquered cities and territories all the way to the Jin people's Shaanxi territory. He also captured Deshun, Zhenrong, Lanzhou, Taozhou, and Hezhou prefectures, and captured five to six thousand horses. , seizing the city and territory can be said to be a great achievement.
Surrounding the most powerful Mongolian general, fierce and fierce Mongolian warriors stood around, expressionless and murderous, watching the bloody torture process with cold eyes.
"Hu Tumen, let me ask again, will you surrender?"
Subotai asked loudly, his eyes burning and ruthless.
Tuoman Hu Tumen was a Jurchen aristocrat of the Jin Kingdom. He once served as Taichang Qing and a member of the Privy Council of Quansuo. He held a high and powerful position and was quite prestigious among the ruling and opposition parties of the Jin Kingdom.
If this person can be recruited and surrendered, it will be of great help to the conquest of the Jin Kingdom.
"If you want me to surrender, give your mother the bullshit! You have killed so many people in our Kingdom of Jin, and the blood shed is more than the Tao River. You evil-doing beasts! If you want me to surrender, go ahead and live in your mother's spring and autumn dream. !”
Although Hu Tumen is in his sixties, he has the temperament of Xin Gui, with a hot temper and no fear.
"Cut his legs!"
Subotai made a cold sound, Hu Shimen's body was held down, and the strong Mongolian man carrying a sharp ax stepped forward, wheeled the giant ax in his hand, and chopped down hard.
Heart-rending screams rang out, and the strong Mongolian man chopped off both of Hu Shimen's legs twice in succession. Blood gushed out like a spring, staining the ground red.
Amid the screams, Hu Shimen fainted.
"Wake him up!"
Subotai sat on the chair with a stern expression, unmoved by the bloody scene in front of him.
Hu Shimen was woken up by the splash of water. He was lying on the ground, facing up to the sky, enduring the pain. The blue sky and white clouds were blurry.
"Hu Shimen, let me ask you again, surrender or not?"
Subotai continued to ask, and the man stood up.
"If you want to kill a thief, you can't save him! Meng Gou, go...die..."
Hu Shimen smiled miserably, tears slowly welling up.
Green mountains and green waters, blue sky and white clouds, everything about his motherland, he was afraid he would never see again.
"kill him!"
Subotai said coldly, and the Meng soldiers stepped forward and gave Hu Shimen's body a sharp blow. The body was separated, and the ground was covered with blood again.
"Throw the body into Taoshui!"
After years of fighting, his heart has become as solid as stone. He quickly walked towards the big tent without looking back.
These hateful ministers of the Jin Kingdom are just like those guys in Xixia. They are all loyal to the emperor and filial sons.
Such hard-boiled people must be killed from head to toe, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
"Subotai, what should we do next? Attack Qinzhou?"
In the large tent of the Chinese army, the commander of the army opened his mouth.
It was much easier for the Mongolian army to attack cities and territories in Jinjing than to attack Lingzhou.
"First capture Huizhou, Gongzhou, and Qinzhou, and the entire Longyou will be ours. Then we will join forces with Wokuotai, defeat Fengxiang Mansion, and march into Jingzhao Mansion to occupy the entire Shaanxi Province. By then, only Henan will be left in the Jin Kingdom, and the country will not be far from being destroyed."
Subotai remained calm and spoke coldly.
"Subutai is right! Maybe Wo Kuotai has captured Fengxiang Mansion and is preparing to attack Jingzhao Mansion!"
Commander Belitai said with a smile.
"What I hate the most is that we didn't capture Lingzhou and Zhongxing Mansion. Why are these Tang Wu Ti dogs so difficult to deal with?"
Another captain, Haili, said unwillingly.
"Now that Tang Wuti and the Jin people have been cut off from their retreat, let's surround them like this and see how long they can hold on. I'll starve them to death!"
Tali sneered and said harshly.
Lingzhou and Zhongxing Mansion have been besieged for almost a year, and it is estimated that the Xixia people are almost trapped as well. Before long, Lingzhou City will run out of ammunition and food, and it will be time to leave the city and surrender. When the time comes, you can have a good time looting and killing.
"When all the soldiers and horses come back, first send the looted property and horses back to Liupanshan Camp. Then go to Fengxiang Mansion and prepare to attack Jingzhao Mansion."
Subotai said coldly with an expressionless face.
It's already sunset in Xixia, so there's no need to worry about it. As long as the siege lasts for another two or three months, while weakening the Jin Kingdom, Xixia will be defeated without any attack.
The plundering of the Golden Realm was full of harvests, with hundreds of thousands of grains, especially five or six thousand mares, which could just make up for the lack of stallions in the army.
Thinking of Genghis Khan's condition, Subotai couldn't help but frown slightly.
I don’t know, how is Genghis Khan’s condition?
"Report! Zhenhai and the others are back!"
The sergeant came to report, and Subotai, who was meditating, couldn't help but be stunned.
I've only been out for a few days, why are you back so soon?
Are those mountain roads on the border between Song and Tibet so easy to walk? Was the plundering of the Song Dynasty so smooth?
Genghis Khan marched south to Liupan Mountain. The army was divided into several routes. Subutai defeated Deshun, Zhenrong, and several prefectures on Lintao Road along the way, and then entered the Song Dynasty via the Tibetan border to promote force and plunder some property.
"Zhenhai, you mean, we lost...more than 1,400 riders!"
After hearing the timid report from his subordinates, Subotai jumped up with a heart of stone.
Two thousand-man teams lost more than 1,400 riders, which was equivalent to being disabled.
"Yes! The Song Army's weapons are very powerful, just like those of the Tangwuti people in Lingzhou City. They can fly hundreds of steps to kill people..."
Zhenhai's eyes flickered and his voice became lower and lower, like a mosquito's cry.
Subotai was stunned for a moment and caught a glimpse of the iron bar next to the chair. He grabbed it and rolled it around. Zhenhai groaned as he hit it and fell to the ground with a "thud".
Subotai was unmoved and hit him on the head and face again.
"You bastard, I asked you to plunder things, but you didn't get anything without telling me, and you lost so many horses. How do you want me to explain to the Khan? You useless bastard!"
The Subotai iron rod hit him more than ten times. Zhenhai's head was covered with blood and he lay motionless on the ground.
"Drag him out and feed the dog!"
Subotai threw away the iron rod stained with flesh and blood, waved his hand in disgust, and the sergeant quickly dragged Zhenhai out.
Subutai was strict in running the army, and military discipline was strict. All the Mongolian generals in the tent were worried, and no one dared to step forward to dissuade him.
After losing more than a thousand horses, it was such a disastrous defeat. No wonder Subotai was furious. Who dared to intercede for Zhenhai?
Angry and angry, Subotai's right eye began to leak water again. The sergeant quickly brought water up and asked Subotai to clean it.
During these years of military campaigns, Subotai's eye disease became increasingly serious, and he was almost blind in his right eye. This was also one of the reasons for his eccentric personality.
"Yesterday's three chapters were in the correct order, but the chapter numbers were wrong. I'll change them after the holiday. I'm sorry."
